Amy’s apartment is really beautiful, and immediately felt like home. With views of city lights and a rooftop pool, quiet gym, and literally a few paces from the metro station steps you can’t ask for better. Plus Amy was a very helpful host who went to a lot of trouble to come up with options for us to store some oversized baggage after our stay while we travel around Thailand.
Bangkok’s metro system is excellent and connects most of the city really well. From Amy’s place you’ll have immediate access to that system. Do note, though, that the old town is hopelessly cut off from the metro by raging traffic so you might want to add one or two nights close to the river eg among the backpackers ghetto near Phra Arthit for those areas. Don’t stay the whole time on the river though because all the real city on the metro then becomes really hard to get to (and you’ll be driven mad by pushy tuk-tuk drivers etc in that part of town).